ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis protest leaders say last week’s the arrest of a clergyman who was subdued with pepper spray is the latest incident in which police have been responsible for “unnecessary and dangerous violence” against demonstrators.

The Reverend Clayton Stancil of the Wayman AME Church says protesters pledge that law-abiding but disruptive demonstrations will continue.

Friday night in a protest near Busch Stadium, the Reverend Darryl Gray of the Missouri Baptist State Convention was taken down and arrested. The protest was among many since a judge last month acquitted former police officer Jason Stockley in the death of a black man, Anthony Lamar Smith.